Tag: World

Jeff Hulbert, of Annapolis, Md., protests U.S. handling of Ebola cases outside of the White House Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

WHO faulted for Ebola failures as Obama taps czar

MARIA CHENGADAM GELLER · October 18, 2014 2:55 am

In this aerial photo provided by the Department of National Defense Maritime Forces Pacific, a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter flies near a Russian container ship, carrying hundreds of tons of fuel drifting without power in rough seas off British Columbia's northern coast on Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The Canadian Forces' joint rescue coordination center in Victoria said the Russian carrier Simushir lost power late Thursday night off Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, as it was making its way from Washington state to Russia. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Department of National Defense Maritime Forces Pacific)

Container ship adrift off British Columbia coast

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 2:40 am

Syrian Kurdish fighter’s long battle in Syrian war

LEFTERIS PITARAKISBURAK SAYIN · October 18, 2014 2:40 am

Demonstrators protest the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college, in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Investigators determined that 28 sets of human remains recovered from a mass grave discovered last weekend outside Iguala, in Guerrero state, were not those of any of the youths who haven't been seen since being confronted by police in that city Sept. 26. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Mexicans protest in Acapulco over missing students

Washington Examiner · October 18, 2014 2:06 am

Rescue workers stand around a collapsed ventilation grate at an outdoor theater in Seongnam, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Fourteen people were feared dead Friday after the ventilation grate collapsed during a concert by popular girlsâ band 4Minute, officials said. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Shin Young-geun) KOREA OUT

16 dead in accident at South Korean concert

Kim TongHyung · October 18, 2014 1:55 am

Jorge Perez, the head of Cuba's top tropical medicine institute, points to a map, showing the location of the field hospital set up to train doctors in the fight against Ebola, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Cuba has sent 165 doctors to Sierra Leone and plans to send 296 more to Liberia and Guinea, the largest commitment of medical personnel so far. Perez says Cuba is ready to send more doctors as long as there is enough funding and infrastructure to support them. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Head of Cuba’s Ebola effort expects more aid soon

Michael Weissenstein · October 18, 2014 1:19 am

Iraq imposes curfew in Ramadi, fearing militants

Iraq imposes curfew in Ramadi, fearing militants

QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRASAMEER N. YACOUB · October 17, 2014 11:35 pm

Journalists protest to demand justice for their murdered colleague Pablo Medina, in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The 53-year-old reporter was killed Thursday in a crime-ridden northern area that is a hotbed for drugs and arms smuggling. He worked for the newspaper ABC Color and focused on investigations exposing corruption and drug traffickers. The newspaper where Medina worked said Friday that he was investigating drug gangs with suspected links to Paraguayan politicians. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Slain Paraguayan journalist was probing drug gangs

Pedro Servin · October 17, 2014 11:22 pm

Argentina leader ordered to rest for 48 hours

Argentina leader ordered to rest for 48 hours

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 10:48 pm

FILE - In this Thursday May 30, 2013 file photo, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, Nigeria's top military spokesman speaks during an interview in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigeria's government and Islamic extremists from Boko Haram have agreed to an immediate cease-fire, officials said Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The fate of more than 200 missing schoolgirls abducted by the insurgents six months ago remains unclear. Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade said their release is still being negotiated. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Nigeria, Boko Haram agree to immediate cease-fire

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 10:06 pm

FILE - This undated image posted on Aug. 27, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters of the Islamic State group waving the group's flag from a damaged display of a government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group is test flying, with the help of former Iraqi air force pilots, several fighter jets captured earlier from air bases belonging to the Syrian military, a Syrian activist group said Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The report by the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights could not be independently confirmed, and U.S. official said they had no reports of Islamic State group militants flying jets in support of their forces on the ground.(AP Photo/ Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

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Activists: Islamic State group may have warplanes

VIVIAN SALAMAZEINA KARAM · October 17, 2014 9:06 pm

Bono says he wears sunglasses due to glaucoma

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 8:55 pm